Cast Your Vote for This Year’s Veritas Award Winner

The Los Angeles Press Club’s Veritas Award honors movies based on real people and real events. Journalism has played a starring role in several past winners, like 2015’s “Spotlight,” which LAPC members chose as the first recipient of the Veritas Award for its depiction of the Boston Globe’s investigation of child molesters in the Catholic Church. Past winners also include “Hidden Figures,” “The Post,” “Green Book,” “Bombshell,” “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” “King Richard,” “She Said” and “Killers of the Flower Moon.” Tell us which movie deserves to be…

See More

‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Wins the LA Press Club’s Veritas Award

The Los Angeles Press Club is thrilled to announce the winner of its 9th annual Veritas Award for Best Film Based on or Inspired by Real Events and People. This award is judged by the 1,000-member strong LAPC — based equally upon fidelity of subject matter and artistic excellence. The 2024 winner is Killers of the Flower Moon, produced by Apple Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The movie stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and Lily Gladstone, directed by Martin Scorsese. Killers of the Flower Moon is based on the true events following the…

See More

2024 Veritas Award Finalists

Running down the competitors for the LAPC’s prize honoring films inspired by true events. The Los Angeles Press Club’s Veritas Award honors movies based on real people and real events. The word “veritas” is Latin for “truth.” But Hollywood demands room for artistic license to bring deeper truths to the big screen. The Press Club’s 1,000 members choose the Veritas winner. Want to participate? Join the Club! Ballots go out in January. Movies that have been honored start with true stories and turn them into great art. Fittingly, journalism played…

See More

‘She Said’ Wins LA Press Club’s Veritas Award

The Los Angeles Press Club is thrilled to announce the winner of its 8th annual Veritas Award for Best Film Based on or Inspired by Real Events and People. This award is judged by the 1,000-member strong LAPC — based equally upon fidelity of subject matter and artistic excellence. The 2023 winner is She Said, produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. The movie depicts New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor breaking the Harvey Weinstein story that shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood. “It is such an…

See More

‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ Wins the LA Press Club’s Veritas Award

The Los Angeles Press Club is thrilled to announce the winner of its 6th annual Veritas Award for Best Film Based on or Inspired by Real Events and People. This award is judged by the 1,000-member strong LAPC — based equally upon fidelity of subject matter and artistic excellence. The clear winner is “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” written and directed by Aaron Sorkin. The outstanding ensemble cast is led by Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Frank Langella and Michael Keaton. The powerful drama is produced by Marc Platt, Stuart Besser, Matt…

See More

“GREEN BOOK” WINS THE LA PRESS CLUB’S VERITAS AWARD

The Los Angeles Press Club is thrilled to announce the winner of its 4th annual Veritas Award for the Best Film Based on or Inspired by Real Events and People. This contest is judged by members of the LAPC — based equally upon fidelity of subject matter and artistic excellence.   The overwhelming winner is Universal Pictures’ Academy Award® nominee Green Book, written by Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie and Peter Farrelly; directed by Farrelly and starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali. “Thank you Los Angeles Press Club for honoring Green Book with your distinguished Veritas Award. To know that your members, journalists of…

See More

“The Post” Wins the LA Press Club’s Veritas Award

The Los Angeles Press Club is thrilled to announce the winner of its 3rd annual Veritas Award for the Best Film Based on or Inspired by Real Events and People. This award is judged by members of the LAPC — based equally upon fidelity of subject matter and artistic excellence. The overwhelming winner is 20th Century Fox’s The Post written by Liz Hannah and Josh Singer and directed by Steven Spielberg; starring Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks. “We are honored and thrilled that the Los Angeles Press Club has voted…

See More